Credit: The Associated Press

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Tang Hui, the mother of a young rape victim who sued a local authority for putting her into a labor camp, attends a court hearing in the Hunan Provincial People's High Court in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Monday, July 15, 2013.

Credit: The Associated Press

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, Tang Hui, left, the mother of a young rape victim who sued a local authority for putting her into a labor camp, attends a court hearing in the Hunan Provincial People's High Court in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Monday, July 15, 2013.

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BEIJING — A woman who became a symbol for the groundswell of opposition to China's labor camp system scored a rare victory Monday in an appeal for compensation in a case that generated a huge public outcry.

The Hunan Provincial People's High Court ruled in favor of Tang Hui, who last year was sentenced to 18 months in a labor camp for petitioning for harsher penalties for the men who abducted, raped and prostituted her 11-year-old daughter.

At the time, Tang's case drew massive public opposition and she was released within days.